Meaning of pedetentously | Babel Free

Definitions

In a pedetentous fashion; cautiously; gradually.

formal, rare

Examples

“I ask you who you are, and what are you riving at Dr. W. I am advancing pedetentously.”

“With slow and cautious steps under the auspices of the Berlin. Academy, is now moving on, not pedetentously (to borrow a word coined by Sydney Smith), but by...”

“Known my feelings for she played dolente (dolefully) an erotica (a love song), singing of the whispering tentaculifera as they stealthily and pedetentously.”

CEFR level